Command showed no error when there is nothing to show

[shaniceng]

• When filtering until no exercise is listed, then running the range command, command box showed exercises from the last few days listed! but there are no exercise listed, hence it was quite confusing for the user. Would recommend to show an error message saying no exercises found instead.

Command used:

• :filter hello -> resulted in nothing listed
• :range last/3 -> showed command that exercises from the last 3 days listed!

[soc-se-bot]

Team's Response

Hi there! Thank you for your report.

We will be rejecting this issue because:

• When a :range command is executed, the list of exercises filtered will be displayed in the Exercise List Window. Hence, an empty list in the Exercise List Window is a clear indication that no exercise can be found and should not be deemed as an error.

While it is true that having an additional message to indicate to the user that no exercise is found can enhance clarity, an absence of it does not cause any inconvenience to the user and thus, we will be rejecting this bug.

Thank you once again for your report!

GIM

Items for the Tester to Verify

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Team chose [response.Rejected]

• [x] I disagree

Reason for disagreement: This flaw is unlikely to affect normal operations of the product, which was why I gave it a low severity. Furthermore, I do feel that as a user, the message could have been more specific enough and stating that 'there is currently no exercises listed' instead of just saying 'exercises from the last 4 days listed'. As a user, I will think that there will be exercises listed based on the message given. Hence, with a more specific message, this would clearly allow the user to go back to the original list and continue with the application.

Examples of how message can be shown if there are no more exercises in the list regardless of what commands used:

• 0 exercises listed! Try executing :list before executing other commands.

Therefore, I believe that this issue should be a feature flaw with low severity as it does caused some minor inconvenience to the user by thinking that there will be exercises listed based on the message given in the application. Furthermore, as a beginner user, after using the :range command given in the description of issue, the user might be confused on how to go back to the original list and might need to refer to the UG, hence causing some minor inconvenience as well. It would have been better to include a more specific message for user to understand what is going on and continue using with the application more easily.

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